Laura Benanti Quotes

This whole thing about reality television to me is really indicative of America saying we're not satisfied just watching television, we want to star in our own TV shows. We want you to discover us and put us in your own TV show, and we want television to be about us, finally.

In America, there's a just-add-water reality TV world in which people expect to get their Warholian 15 minutes of fame.

You watch these reality shows and say, 'Oh, I would do that, except for eating all the gross stuff.' These reality shows are like everyone's little guilty pleasure. To have an opportunity to be on one, why not? Anybody who says, 'No, I don't want to be on one' is kind of lying in the back of their heads.

We live in a celebrity-obsessed society.

If you take a bunch of superstars and put them in a room where they don't have their assistants and entourage, it's funny to see what happens.

Celebrity culture is something that pains me.

Among some of the youngsters, I think reality TV has installed that culture into them and inspired a few of them into wanting to be 'TV celebrities.'

Everybody wants to be known. Everybody's a Kardashian.

I like the Kardashians. I'm a fan. I watch their show.

There are so many cameras. There is so much instant media attention, not just for celebrities, but for normal people that get thrust in the reality world.

Fame is everywhere; the 15 minutes are now the dominant themes of our times.

In 1970, television ate my family. The Andy Warhol prophecy of 15 minutes of fame for any and everyone blew up on our doorstep.

Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.'

I hate these reality TV shows where people walk off Big Brother and think they're A-list celebrities when they've done nothing in their lives, it really does my head in.

I've seen a lot of my friends go through different reality shows, and they just get caught up in a lot of stagnant positions, unfortunately.

People behave differently to TV stars and film stars; it's to do with the scale of the medium. Film stars get hushed awe, TV stars get slapped on the back. Neither is good for you. Famous people don't hear the word 'no' enough.

I can't bear to look at Paris Hilton and all that. I mean, it really doesn't grab me. I don't think she's interesting, and the sense of values seems sort of off-kilter.

If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, 'This is the way you want to be'. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people.

Celebrity has lost its value - all you have to do is go on a reality TV show for six weeks and everybody knows your name.

I like the Kardashians. I watch 'em. When Kim got the botox in her face, and it made her face go weepy, that was funny. I also watch 'America's Next Top Model.' I've always been a big fan.

The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance.

Now we've gotten accustomed to reality shows where the goal is to see people acting foolish.

Reality programming and social media make the game board bigger; they increase the number of runners on the track, each lunging at the finish line to be the first chest to hit the tape.

I think celebrity is taking a heavy shot because of reality TV and the rise of Mr. Trump. I think people are becoming a little more leery, assuming that being a celebrated individual means you have some gravitas.

I don't like the Kardashians, but I still live a full life.